Programs and automated tools

[Der PigDog]

I'm curious to see what what tools people have made to help automate their games or prep, or simply make running them easier. For instance, I have an Obsidian vault with a page for every hex, and a small script to automate linking adjacent hexes. (I can post this if there's interest, but it's quite simple to do for oneself.) Since making my obsidian vault I've also changed from using a VTT to having my players map on Excalidraw, as I can save Excalidraw drawings to my vault directly.

I also have a number of Perchance generators:

• Wilderness encounters for various terrain types
  
• A hex-filler using Wilderness Hexplore
  
• A character creator
  
• Dungeon encounters, using Delta's revised list
  
• Castles using OD&D's rules
  

Some of these are still unfinished or buggy but I use them pretty much every week!

[rredmond]

My castle is guarded by 3 giants! Nice.
Thanks for sharing DPD!

[chicagowiz]

Funny you mention this because the past month has seen me doing a lot of changing of what I used to use.

I'm settling on:

• Hex/Encounter population - a customized/self-hosted version of Hex Describe with campaign specific tables [1]
• NPC / Persona creation - same Hex Describe tool, just using a custom built page using Alex's source code as a starting point
• A personal website hosting MediaWiki (for publicly available lore) and Wordpress (for journals/logs written by players)
• Treasure generation - either Swords & Wizardry Tools as starting point, or donjon.bin.sh, or @mrjoshbear 's OD&D Referee Tools.
• My own encounter tables, using this approach as a starting point
• The Fantasy City/Town Map generator on watabou

Most of this used to be in a Google spreadsheet, but I've taken to the table/tool generator format.

[1] Blogged and podcasted about it: 
chgowiz-games.blogspot.com/2023/02/domesday-medieval-demographics-for-your.html
chgowiz-games.blogspot.com/2023/02/dungeon-masters-handbook-episode-49.html